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Chesterton market report OX26 2, Bicester
The OX26 2 (Chesterton) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. The raw material for this page is 4,679 HM Land Registry entries for OX26 2 (Bicester), going back to 1995: each an actual purchase at an actual price. Rents come from the ONS. Valuations, estimates and asking prices appear nowhere in it.
Covers registered sales to 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: the typical home in OX26 2 (Bicester) sold for £341,000 in 2026, the median of 38 registered sales, up 17% on five years earlier. The mean was £351,100, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £4,110 per square metre over the last five years. The figures cover 4,679 sales recorded by HM Land Registry since 1995 and refresh with each monthly release: completed sale prices, not valuations or asking prices.
A postcode sector like OX26 2 is a single group of streets within OX26 (Bicester), the finest slice the public record supports. Fewer sales stand behind each figure than at district level, so the lines jump about more.
Where OX26 2 sits
Shaded by median price on the same scale as the average prices map. Click any shape to open it on the live map with every sale plotted at its address, or zoom in past street level to see the sold homes right here.
OX26 2 sold prices: where the market stands
Take the 38 registered 2026 sales in OX26 2 and the middle price, the median, is £341,000. The mean lands at £351,100, almost on top of it, so sales bunch tightly around the typical price.
OX26 2 prices by floor area
A square metre of OX26 2 home has cost about £4,110 on average across the last five years of sales, using the floor area on each home's Energy Performance Certificate: the measure that puts a studio and a five-bed on the same footing.
England and Wales as a whole trade at a £285,000 median, leaving OX26 2 20% above the national figure.
A typical OX26 2 home, priced year by year (1995 to 2026)
Two lines: the median in the money of its day, and the same years restated by ONS CPIH into today's money, which is the truer test of getting dearer. Hover for exact figures; click a legend entry to isolate a series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £341,000 | £341,000 | 38 |
| 2025 | £344,000 | £352,226 | 108 |
| 2024 | £316,200 | £336,186 | 94 |
| 2023 | £340,000 | £373,577 | 80 |
| 2022 | £322,500 | £378,168 | 105 |
| 2021 | £290,400 | £367,684 | 154 |
| 2020 | £280,500 | £363,955 | 104 |
| 2019 | £270,000 | £353,905 | 100 |
| 2018 | £281,200 | £374,845 | 124 |
| 2017 | £280,000 | £381,892 | 106 |
| 2016 | £265,000 | £370,738 | 125 |
| 2015 | £250,000 | £353,250 | 134 |
| 2014 | £225,500 | £319,911 | 162 |
| 2013 | £216,000 | £310,802 | 126 |
| 2012 | £195,000 | £287,016 | 122 |
| 2011 | £187,000 | £282,298 | 101 |
| 2010 | £190,000 | £297,969 | 99 |
| 2009 | £175,000 | £281,314 | 100 |
| 2008 | £181,800 | £298,009 | 70 |
| 2007 | £192,000 | £325,685 | 193 |
| 2006 | £170,000 | £295,098 | 206 |
| 2005 | £157,000 | £279,397 | 158 |
| 2004 | £155,000 | £281,510 | 211 |
| 2003 | £143,000 | £263,441 | 177 |
| 2002 | £125,500 | £236,127 | 185 |
| 2001 | £104,000 | £199,935 | 250 |
| 2000 | £94,200 | £184,868 | 212 |
| 1999 | £78,500 | £156,446 | 229 |
| 1998 | £71,500 | £144,328 | 183 |
| 1997 | £65,000 | £133,302 | 231 |
| 1996 | £56,500 | £119,156 | 225 |
| 1995 | £56,000 | £121,735 | 167 |
In cash terms the typical OX26 2 home went from £56,000 in 1995 to £341,000 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 180%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. The real-terms peak came in 2017, and today's median remains roughly 11% under it: a 2017 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the OX26 2 median
Each bar is the change on the year before, in cash. The zero line is the boundary between rising and falling.
The strongest year on record here is 2002 (+20.7% on the year before); the weakest, 2024 (−7.0%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
What OX26 2 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −0.9% | −3.2% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +3.3% | −1.5% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.6% | −0.8% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.5% | +0.7% |
The table annualises median growth over each period, with the real column deflated by ONS CPIH. Smoothing hides the cycle (see the chart above for it), and none of this forecasts: it is the record.
How many homes change hands in OX26 2
The year-by-year sales count
Each bar is a year's recorded sales. 2008's dip is the financial crisis, and the newest bar always grows for a while as late registrations arrive.
The register shows 38 OX26 2 sales across the most recent twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 199 sales a year before the financial crisis and 85 a year over the last five. Price without volume misleads: a median built on few sales jumps around, and one street can tilt it. Keep in mind too that the latest year is still filling in, since sales reach the register weeks or months after completion.
Rents around OX26 2
The local authority for OX26 2 is Cherwell, and its ONS average private rent currently stands at £1,289 a month (May 2026 figures). Size sets most of the rent: one-beds average £963 a month here against £2,181 for four or more bedrooms.
Average monthly rent by size, Cherwell
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Against the £341,000 median purchase price, a rent of £1,289 a month (£15,468 a year) works out at a 4.5% gross yield, a ceiling figure that ignores letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax. Because rents are local-authority statistics, districts sharing the authority share the figure.
Reading the OX26 2 market
This is a thin market: 38 sales in the last twelve months of data. With that few transactions, one street selling well (or one block of cheap transfers) can move the median, so read the year lines as a range rather than a verdict.
Asked and answered: OX26 2 (Chesterton)
Are property prices falling in OX26 2 (Chesterton)?
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How much did a house sell for in OX26 2 (Chesterton)?
Are OX26 2 prices heading up or down?
That question has no honest answer, only evidence. The evidence: the median is up 17% over five years in cash but down 7% after inflation. Weigh the volume chart alongside the price one before deciding anything, and bear in mind every figure is a completed sale that reached the register weeks after completion.
What is for sale in OX26 right now
This is what you could actually buy today: 75 homes currently on the market from 7 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole OX26 district, not just OX26 2: live asking prices are collected per district.
Of everything listed here, 37% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
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"Under comparable sales" compares each asking price with what similar homes nearby actually sold for. It is a starting point for a conversation, not a valuation. Always look at the home itself.
See every OX26 home for sale on the map →
Refreshed every Monday and Thursday from agents' own feeds to HomesIndex, so a sample of the market rather than all of it. An asking price remains an ask, not a sale.
What another bedroom costs in OX
The Land Registry record, split by size: what each kind of home actually sold for across the OX area. The jump between sizes is local: in some areas a third bedroom adds a quarter to the price, in others nearly four fifths, so a national rule of thumb will mislead you here.
| Type | 1 bed | 2 bed | 3 bed | 4 bed | 5 bed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Detached | — | £390,000 | £512,000 (+31%) | £750,000 (+46%) | £1,175,000 (+57%) |
| Semi-detached | £285,000 | £350,000 (+23%) | £413,375 (+18%) | £550,000 (+33%) | £848,750 (+54%) |
| Terraced | £275,000 | £322,500 (+17%) | £385,000 (+19%) | £506,000 (+31%) | £848,725 (+68%) |
| Flat | £200,000 | £255,000 (+27%) | £475,000 (+86%) | £625,500 (+32%) | — |
Four years of recorded sales, split by built form and bedroom count. The register does not state bedrooms, so sizes come from each home's EPC record and a few homes will land one size out. Sizes with too few homes to be meaningful are left blank.
The risers and the fallers
The spread across the OX area is the point: the same five years treated these districts very differently.
Five-year change in the median, OX area districts
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Other sectors in OX26
Sector boundaries hide real price steps. The rest of OX26, one report each:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| OX26 1 | £401,500 | 38 |
| OX26 3 | £369,000 | 45 |
| OX26 4 | £310,000 | 25 |
| OX26 5 | £380,000 | 4 |
| OX26 6 | £295,000 | 61 |
Zoom out to the full OX26 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how OX26 compares with its neighbours.
Before you sell in OX26 2: what the record supports
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at OX26 2's shading and zoom to the sold homes on the street itself. Agents work from this same Land Registry record when they value; this page puts it in front of you before they arrive.
Estate agents working OX26 2: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim OX26 2.
Take it further
Answers come from the same Land Registry data behind this report, and the AI knows you are asking about OX26 2. Free, with a one click sign in.
See every individual OX26 2 sale on the live map, mapped to the exact address, or zoom the average prices map from neighbourhood shading down to single homes. The report tool writes a custom answer to a specific question, and the mortgage and rent calculator on any sale runs the numbers on a real purchase.
Method, briefly: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0) supplies every sale, geocoded to address level; CPIH from the ONS restates prices in today's money; ONS local-authority figures supply the rents. Medians of real sales, not valuations. No part of this page is financial advice.